Booting without keyboard.

[Mike Jackson]

ext hctan7 at yahoo.com (hctan7 at yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p10 on a Intel SE7501WV2 board. I am using a PS2 keyboard without mouse. It works fine. However, when i boot without the keyboard plugged into the system, it is not able to accept the keyboard when i plug in later. 
>  
> Is there a way to turn the keyboard always 'on' so that i can get it to work whenever i plug it in after the system is up and running.
>  

Hi,
 You could try a USB keyboard. I'm not sure if USB Hotplugging is
working in FBSD or not, but it *should* work theoretically.

 I don't know of any systems that allow PS/2 hotplugging.

BR,
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mike